Microsoft ® Word 2010 Basics

1. Microsoft® Word 2010 Basics CS110 – Personal Computing

2. What is Word? • Microsoft Word 2010 is a word-processing program, designed to help you create professional-quality documents. • Word helps you organize and write your documents more efficiently. • Word also includes editing and revising tools so that you can collaborate with others easily.

3. Microsoft Word Basics • This lecture is intended to bring those with little to no Word knowledge up and running • Many of you already have this knowledge • Please be courteous to those listening • Or review the slides on-line Microsoft Word Basics

4. The first time you open Word When you open Word, you see two things, or main parts: The ribbon, which sits above the document, and includes a set of buttons and commands that you use to do things in and with your document (like print it). A blank document, which looks like a white sheet of paper and takes up most of the window. A new, blank document Microsoft Word Basics

5. Just start typing In the document, look for the cursor, which tells you where the content you type will appear on the page. Word waits for you to start typing. If you’d like to start typing further down the page instead of at the very top, press the ENTER key on your keyboard until the cursor is where you want to type. The cursor – a blinking vertical line in the upper-left corner of the page Microsoft Word Basics

6. Just start typing Once you’ve finished typing your first paragraph, press the ENTER key to go to the next paragraph. If you want more space between the two paragraphs (or any two paragraphs), press ENTER again and then start typing your second paragraph. The cursor – a blinking vertical line in the upper-left corner of the page Microsoft Word Basics

7. Just start typing If you make a mistake while typing, just press the BACKSPACE key to “erase” the incorrect characters or words. The cursor – a blinking vertical line in the upper-left corner of the page Microsoft Word Basics

8. Fix spelling and grammar mistakes Red underline: This indicates either a possible spelling error or that Word doesn’t recognize a word, such as a proper name or place. Wavy lines like these warn you of spelling and grammar mistakes. As you type, Word will warn you if make spelling or grammar mistakes by inserting a wavy red, green, or blue underline beneath the text that it thinks is an error. Microsoft Word Basics

9. Fix spelling and grammar mistakes Blue underline: A word is spelled correctly but does not seem to be the correct word for the sentence. For example, you type “too,” but the word should be “to.” Wavy lines like these warn you of spelling and grammar mistakes. Green underline: Word thinks that grammar should be revised. Microsoft Word Basics

10. Fix spelling and grammar mistakes Click a revision to replace the word in the document and get rid of the underlines. Wavy lines like these warn you of spelling and grammar mistakes. You right-click an underlined word to see suggested revisions. Microsoft Word Basics

11. Fix spelling and grammar mistakes If you think that you are right, and Word is wrong, then you can right-click the word and ignore the suggested revisions and get rid of the underlines. Wavy lines like these warn you of spelling and grammar mistakes. A note of caution about green and blue underlines: Word is really good at spelling, which is pretty straightforward most of the time. But grammar and correct word usage take some judgment. Microsoft Word Basics

12. Format text You can call attention to this important information by adding emphasis with bold, italic, or underlined formatting. There are many ways to emphasize text including bold, italic, and underlined formatting. The press release you’re typing announces the net income and price per share for Contoso Pharmaceuticals. Microsoft Word Basics

13. Format text As you can see in the picture, there are several tabs across the top. Each represents an activity area. The second tab, the Home tab, should be selected (if not, you click it to select it). There are many ways to emphasize text including bold, italic, and underlined formatting. Let’s make the text bold. Remember the ribbon we mentioned at the beginning of the lesson? Now’s when you’ll see how it’s used. Microsoft Word Basics

14. Format text On the Home tab, look for the Fontgroup, where you’ll see buttons and commands that perform a specific action on your document. For example, the Boldbutton makes the text bold. Or you can change the font color and size of text with the Font Colorand Font Sizebuttons. There are many ways to emphasize text including bold, italic, and underlined formatting. Each tab has several groups of commands that show related items together. Microsoft Word Basics

15. Add some style However, there’s a way to make all the changes we just did with just one command, by using styles. The Paragraph and Styles groups, on the Home tab. You can make most changes to text from the Font group, but formatting text this way is handy when you want to change the format of just a few characters or words. Microsoft Word Basics

16. Add some style The Paragraph and Styles groups, on the Home tab. The styles are on the Home tab, in the Styles group. You just choose the style you want, and the text size, font, attributes, and paragraph formatting are changed for you automatically. Microsoft Word Basics

17. Change margins This is the most common margin width, which you might use for most of your documents. But if you want different margins, you should know how to change them, which you can at any time. The Margins button on the Page layout tab. Page margins are the blank spaces around the edges of the page. There is a 1-inch (2.54 cm) page margin at the top, bottom, left, and right sides of the page. Microsoft Word Basics

18. Change margins First you click it to select it, and then, in the Page Setup group, you click Margins. You’ll see different margin sizes, shown in little pictures (icons), along with the measurements for each of the margins. The Margins button on the Page layout tab. You also use the ribbon to change margins, except you work from the Page Layout tab. Microsoft Word Basics

19. Change margins When you click the margin type that you want, your entire document automatically changes to the margin type you selected. The Margins button on the Page layout tab. The first margin in the list is Normal, the current margin. To get narrower margins, you would click Narrow. If you want the left and right margins to be much wider, click Wide. Microsoft Word Basics

20. Change margins If you click the Margins button again, that background color tells you which margin size has been set for your document. The Margins button on the Page layout tab. When you choose a margin, the icon for the margin you chose gets a different color background. Microsoft Word Basics

21. Save, print, and close your document To keep your work, you have to save it, and it’s never too early to do that. Backstage view, where you can save and print your document. At some point you may have a finely tuned sentence or several paragraphs of ideas, facts, or figures that you would regret losing if your cat jumped on your keyboard, or if a power failure shut your computer off. Microsoft Word Basics

22. Save, print, and close your document This opens a large window called the Backstage, a place where you take care of a lot of things, such as saving you document, and printing it. Backstage view, where you can save and print your document. On the ribbon, you click the first tab, the File tab. Microsoft Word Basics

23. Save, print, and close your document After you save your document, and you continue to type, you should save your work as you go. Backstage view, where you can save and print your document. In the left column, you click Save. A smaller window, called a dialog box, opens. You use this box to tell Word where you want to store the document on your computer, and what you want to call it. Microsoft Word Basics

24. Save, print, and close your document Of course, you’ll need to have a printer hooked up to your computer. Backstage view, where you can save and print your document. Need to print? When you’re ready to print, click again the File tab (the first tab). In the left column, you click the Print command. A large window opens, and you click the Print button. Microsoft Word Basics

25. Save, print, and close your document Backstage view, where you can save and print your document. When you are through with the document and have saved your work, close the file. Click the File tab, and in the left column click Close. Microsoft Word Basics

26. Moving around in the document The cursor (the vertical line) is at the end of the second paragraph, after the word "assistance." To type anywhere else in the document, you need to move the cursor to that place. Move the cursor to another location by moving the pointer and then clicking, or by using the keyboard. Imagine, in this picture, that you want to type a new sentence in the first paragraph between “civilization” and “During”. Microsoft Word Basics

27. Moving around in the document With your mouse, move the cursor just to the left of “During,” and then click to insert the cursor. Then start typing. Or… Press the UP ARROW on your keyboard to move the cursor up one line at a time. Then press the LEFT ARROW to move the cursor left, one character at a time. Move the cursor to another location by moving the pointer and then clicking, or by using the keyboard. Here are a couple of ways to do that: Microsoft Word Basics

28. Use the scroll bar The scroll bar. But if your document is getting long, it may not be practical to have to continuously press the arrow keys to move up or down the document. Instead, use the scroll bar. Microsoft Word Basics

29. Use the scroll bar Here’s how it works: The scroll bar is on the right side of the window. To use it, click the scroll box, and then drag it up or down to move through a document without moving the cursor. Or click the single scroll arrows at either end of the scroll bar to move up or down. The scroll bar. Microsoft Word Basics

30. Go behind the scenes with formatting marks You can see what’s going on in your document by looking at the formatting marks that Word automatically inserts as you type. These marks are always in documents, but they are invisible to you until you display them. Formatting marks in a Word document. Imagine that you have typed a few paragraphs. The paragraphs seem very far apart, and the second paragraph starts farther to the right than the first paragraph. Microsoft Word Basics

31. Go behind the scenes with formatting marks Formatting marks in a Word document. For example, a dot appears every time you press the SPACEBAR, such as between words. One dot is one space; two dots are two spaces, and so on. Normally there should be one space between each word. Microsoft Word Basics

32. Go behind the scenes with formatting marks Formatting marks in a Word document. Word inserts a paragraph mark ( ) each time you press ENTER to start a new paragraph. In the picture, there are two paragraph marks between the two paragraphs, which means that ENTER was pressed twice. This creates extra space between paragraphs. Microsoft Word Basics

33. Go behind the scenes with formatting marks Formatting marks in a Word document. One arrow ( ) appears each time TAB is pressed. In the picture there is one arrow before the first paragraph and two arrows before the second paragraph, so TAB was pressed twice in the second paragraph. Microsoft Word Basics

34. Go behind the scenes with formatting marks Formatting marks in a Word document. To see formatting marks, go to the ribbon, at the top of the window. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the Show/Hide button ( ). Click the button again to hide formatting marks. Microsoft Word Basics

35. Move text by using Cut and Paste For instance, in the first paragraph, you decide that the fourth sentence should be the last sentence in the paragraph. Don’t delete and retype – use Cut and Paste. What if you need to move some text around in the document? You don’t need to delete it and type it again where you want it. Instead, just use Cut and Paste. Microsoft Word Basics

36. Move text by using Cut and Paste Don’t delete and retype – use Cut and Paste. Select the sentence you want to move, as shown in the picture. Move the cursor to the end of the paragraph, where you want the sentence to appear (after the dot formatting mark).  On the ribbon, on the Home tab, Click Cut ( ). On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click Paste( ). Microsoft Word Basics

37. Undo! On the Quick Access Toolbar at the very top of the window, click the Undo button ( ). The Undo button on the Quick Access Toolbar. You’ve moved the sentence, but now that you look at it, you’re not happy with the change. Fortunately, you don’t have to go through the entire cut-and-paste process again to move the sentence back to its original place. Instead, use Undo. Microsoft Word Basics

38. Undo! Click the Undo button again to undo the previous action, which in this case was cutting the sentence from its original location. Now your sentence is back in its original location. The Undo button on the Quick Access Toolbar. This will undo the last action you took, which in this case was pasting the sentence in the new location. Microsoft Word Basics

39. Line spacing Changing line spacing in a document. You can adjust how much space is between lines of text. If you’d like more or less space between lines throughout a document, or in a selected area of text, such as in a letter address, it’s easy to change the spacing. Microsoft Word Basics

40. Line spacing To change line spacing for a single paragraph, you can just place the cursor inside the text; you don’t have to select the text. Changing line spacing in a document. To change the line spacing for an entire document, you need to select all the text in the document by pressing CTRL+A. Microsoft Word Basics

41. Line spacing A check mark in the list tells you what the current line spacing is. Click the new line spacing you want. Changing line spacing in a document. Then, on the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Line Spacing( ). Microsoft Word Basics

42. Align text left, center, or right Text can be left-aligned, which means the left edge of the text is flush with the left margin; right-aligned; centered; or justified, which means it’s aligned evenly along the left and right margins. The Align buttons. Horizontal alignment determines the appearance and orientation of the edges of the paragraphs. Microsoft Word Basics

43. Align text left, center, or right For example, in many documents, titles are centered in the middle of the page. The Align buttons. The most common alignment is left-aligned, but you can change it to whatever you want, for a single paragraph, a set of paragraphs, or the entire document. Microsoft Word Basics

44. Align text left, center, or right Select the text that you want to align, or press CTRL+A to select all the text in the document. Then, on the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Align Left( ) or Align Right( ), Center( ), or Justify( ). The Align buttons. Microsoft Word Basics

45. Mac user interface CS110 Microsoft Word Basics

46. (1) Menu bar: The area at the top of the screen where all menus are displayed. The File, Edit, and View menus have the most commonly used menu commands.

47. (2) Standard toolbar: The toolbar that displays the name of the document (in this case, Document1) and buttons for some of the most common tasks, such as opening, saving, and printing a document.

48. (5) Scrollbar: The bar on the side of the document window. Drag the scrollbar up or down to see parts of a document that are not currently visible.

49. (3) Ribbon: The tabbed command bar at the top of a window or work area that organizes features into logical groups. The Home tab and Layout tab have the most commonly used commands for formatting text and changing the document layout.

50. (4) Cursor: The blinking vertical line in a document that indicates where text will appear when you start to type.